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Originally Posted by Darant
This is precisely the reason current public opinion in America is anti-union. The purpose of our union is not to get you everything you desire or to hold the company and your fellow employees hostage until you get what you want. There is a happy medium that both parties can agree to that wont sink Mesa which would ultimately cost you your job and create a better working contract with some increase in pay.
Go back and read my post again. I said industry
average. It would be one thing to demand outrageous, unprecedented pay rates at the regional level, or to demand firm raises when the whole industry is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. But neither of those is going on right now. Mainline is posting healthy profits and other regionals have figured out how to pay better than Mesa and still successfully do business.
I'm not anti-union and I don't want the company to fail, but at the same time this is a free market economy. If we price ourselves out of existence by voting in industry average pay rates, then that speaks volumes of the business model here at MAG. And IMO if that puts the company under then they shouldn't be doing business. This is basic economics at work.
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Originally Posted by Darant
Take a step back and think about your rhetoric, be a professional.
There's nothing unprofessional about demanding a respectable wage with the current labor and economical situations. In fact that would be the professional thing to do if you value skill and competency.